Goat Farming In India

Commercial goat farming in India is becoming very popular day by day. As goat farming is a proven highly profitable business idea so, the popularity of this business is increasing rapidly in India. It is also one of the finest and established livestock management department in the country. Huge market demand and proper spread ensures fast profitability and sustainability of this business for long term. But the commercial goat farming and it’s market in India have been adopted by some large and progressive producers, industrialists, businessman and large companies. This type producers or large companies control a citable portion of the total market. Continuously increasing demand of goat meat and milk in India is a hope for widely spreading this industry. In India, the goats are among the main meat producing animals. Most of the people prefer goat meat and has a huge domestic demand. Along with meat production, goats are also very suitable for milk, fiber and skin production. They also produce high quality manure which helps to increase the crop production. Goat has a great and important contribution in the rural economy. Specifically in mountainous, semi-arid and arid regions of India. There are more than 25% goats among the total livestock in the country. Here I am describing about some highly productive goat breeds, benefits and difficulties of goat farming in India.

Benefits of Goat Farming In India
There are some benefits of domestic or commercial goat farming. If you want to start goat farming business then you must read the benefits of raising goats.

Compared to cow and other livestock farming, goat farming requires less space and additional facilities. They have a less demand of housing and other management. In small scale production they are also able to share their homes with their owners and his/her other livestock.

Production costs like infrastructure, feeding and treatment are less.

You don’t have to think about marketing your farm products. Because there are already an established market in the country for marketing your products.

It is really very easy to maintain a goat farm compared to other farm animals.

Goats can adopt themselves with almost all types of agro-climatic conditions. And diseases are less in goats.

They are smaller in size but reach slaughter age faster.

Goat products like meat and milk has no religious taboo. And highly accepted for consumption throughout the world.

Starting Goat Farming in India
If you want to start goat farming in India, then you must have to go with some step by step process. First of all try to have a training on goat farming from your nearest livestock farming or training center. After that, do the rest process for starting domestic or commercial goat farming in India.

Select A Suitable Location
Almost all areas of India are very suitable for goat farming. You can select a land for goat farming near your home or select a land which has all types of facilities for successful goat farming business. While selecting land for starting goat farming business, consider the followings.

Select a suitable land that has a great source of fresh and clean water.

Suitable for grass, crop and other green plants production. This are used as goat feed to reduce supplementary feeding cost.

The selected land will not be too far from the market or town.

Ensure there is a suitable market near your selected area for purchasing necessary commodities and medicines.

Find out if there are any other goat farm located in your selected area.

A suitable market with high demands of goat products is available near the selected farm area.

Try to select land in village area. Because, lands and labors can easily be found within very cheap rate in village areas.

Ensure availability of all types of veterinary service in the area. If not available, stock all types of necessary vaccines and medicines in your farm.

Good transportation system so that you can easily sell your products and buy necessary commodities from nearest market or town.

Products You Want to Produce
Before starting goat farming in India, determine the goat products that you want to produce from your farm. At a same time you can produce tasty meat and milk, useful and valuable skins, fiber or manure from the goat. Determine what type of goat products you want to produce and do the next steps. You can easily go with meat and dairy goat farming business. Because, goat meat and milk has a great demand in India. And setting up commercial meat or dairy goat farming business is very profitable than skin or fiber production. Before starting, visit your nearest local market and try to understand which goat product has a great demand and price. Then take a decision and choose suitable breeds for your production.

Breeds
There are numerous goat breeds available in India. But all goats are not suitable for commercial production. Some goat breeds are highly productive and very suitable for commercial farming in India.

Jamunapari Goat: Jamunapari goat is a native goat breed of India. It is a highly milk and meat productive goat. But they are raised mainly for their highly milk production capacity. A female goat can produce about 2-3 litter milk daily. An adult male weights about 65-90 kg and female goat weights about 40-60 kg.

Boer Goat:Boer goat is a South African goat breed but suitable for farming in India. They are meat productive goat breed. And adult Boer goat weights about 110-115 kg and a female goat weights about 90-100 kg.

Black Bengal Goat:Black Bengal goat is a Bangladeshi goat breed. This goat breed is considered as an important small livestock in Bangladesh. They are very suitable for meat, milk, skin and fiber production. This goat breed can adopt themselves with almost all types of climate easily. Their meat and milk are very tasty and has a great demand.

Beetal Goat:Beetal goat is a native Indian goat breed. They are highly milk productive goat breed. Also suitable for highly meat production. They are able to produce about 2.5-4 litter milk daily. An adult male goat weights about 65 kg and female about 45 kg.

Saanen Goat:Saanen goat is a dairy goat breed of Switzerland. But suitable for commercial milk production in India. They can produce milk highly like Jamunapari and Alpine goat. They are able to produce about 3.8 litters milk daily. An adult male Saanen goat weights around 70-90 kg and female around 60-70 kg.

Housing
Housing is very important for commercial goat farming in India. But, most of the goat farmers in India used to raise goats in small scale and keep them with their other livestock animals like sheep or cattle. This type of goat rearing system can’t produce maximum production. So, for setting up commercial goat farm, you must have to build a dedicated goat housing system. Nowadays, goat housing design with stall feeding system is very popular and this system ensures high production and profit than other traditional systems. However, consider the followings while making house for commercial goat farming in India.

For profitable commercial production, you must have to keep your goats in clean pens that is free of dampness, drafts and pests like flies and rodents.

Make proper ventilation system and ensure flow of sufficient fresh air and light.

Make suitable drainage and sanitation system inside the house. So that, you can easily clean the house.

Try to make the house in higher place to keep the house always dry.

The house must have to be free from entrancing flood water and rain water directly inside the house. Because, the goats hates rain.

Make proper temperature control system so that you can easily keep your goats warm in winter season and moderate temperature in summer season.

Keep all the feeding and watering equipment neat and clean.

Goat housing design vary according to the production and breeds. Make effective goat housing design according to your desired production and breeds.

Feeding
Goats can grow well and produce maximum by feeding well balanced and nutritious food. Always ensure availability of all types of necessary ingredients in their food. Most successful modern goat farmer feed their goats 12% to 18% protein containing feeds. Add all types of necessary vitamins, minerals and other necessary ingredients in proper ratio. Ensure sufficient supply of green grasses or other green foods. Never try to feed them contaminated or expired foods. Making a pasture or grazing place will be effective for higher production. Ensure sufficient amount of clean and fresh water available according to the daily demands of goat along with providing good foods.

Veterinary Service
Availability of veterinary service is a must for setting up commercial goat farming business in India. So, ensure proper veterinary service for your goats. Stock all types of necessary vaccines and medicines in your farm. This will help you if something goes wrong and maximizing productions from commercial goat farming in India.

Special Care & Management
Always take good care of your goats. Monitor all their activities. Separate the weak goats from healthy one and provide necessary treatment. Vaccinate them timely to prevent unwanted problems and for keeping your goats healthy and productive. Never let them to go outside the farm area. In stall feeding system, always feed them fresh and nutritious food with sufficient amount of green elements. Never try to mix contaminated or polluted food elements with their regular food. Take special care to the breeding bucks and does. Take special care to the kids for few weeks. Always keep a record of all your income and expenditures. And finally start raising goats and you will learn the rest special care and management that will make you success in commercial goat farming business in India.

Marketing:
If everything goes well, now it’s time to market the products. Good marketing strategies can maximize benefits from goat farming in India. There is already an established and suitable market for selling all your goat products in India. And all types of goat products like meat and milk has a huge demand in India. Taking some special techniques can maximize profits. For example if you sell your meat goats during some religious festivals like various types of Puja, Eid etc. Almost all local market of India has a great demand of goat milk and meat. So, you don’t have to worry about marketing the products. Just start raising goats commercially.

Difficulties Of Goat Farming In India
There are some difficulties of goat farming in India. The main difficulties which are obstructing goat farming are listed beneath.

Lack of sufficient knowledge about goat farming effectively. And the people are not using modern farming methods in goat rearing business.

Absence of specially-designed vehicles which are very useful for transporting live goats from one place to another.

The beginners without any practical goat rearing training faces high mortality rate in goats due to some fatal goat diseases like PPR, pneumonia, diarrhea, tetanus etc. As they lose money during first time, they don’t want to start rearing goats again.

The goat producers can’t choose the right breed for production due to lack of knowledge. As a result they can’t produce their desired production and lose their interest in goat farming. Choosing right breed can increase the production of a farm greatly.

Non-availability of all vaccines(especially PPR) and veterinary doctor throughout the country.

In some regions of India the producers don’t get proper price for their farm products. Which discourage them in large production.

Lack of capital. Most of the people don’t have the ability to buy sufficient number (50-100) of goats for starting the business. A farm of 50-100 goats can certainly generate a handsome income.

Goat farming business is one of the traditional occupations of some Indian people. It is also the only economic activity of some people of rural areas. Like poultry farming, goat farming business is also very profitable and can employ a large number of unemployed educated people. Which will help to eradicate unemployment problem from the country. Wish your happy goat farming business in India.

Comments(89)

I wish to open a small goat farm for that I need 10 pairs of high meat productive goats breed means the 2/3 months male female goats and sheep’s from where I can get these or cash on delivery system is there

Dear SirYour website is so valuable and informant. beginners of goat farming like me get much desirable tips out of it . I want to start a commercial goat farm 100-150 herds(for meat)in the state of Odisha , India . The Boer breed stock i heard is too expensive-to the tune of Rs 60-70,000 for buck and doe a little more than this(one farm in Maharashtra quoted ), what reasonable (both in terms of buying the breed stock and also good growth rate )meat breed stock do you suggest from the nearest state source (AP for example) .Or should i start with smaller herd size of 50 ??I need your valuable guidance .Regards SAM

Dear sir,
I would like to inform you that I have a plan to a new goat farm at palamu dist. in Jharkhand. As per my observation I have a land which is 28000 sq. feet area for total compound apart from 28000 sq. feet I want make sheds for goats in 5000 sq. feet.
I want to know many things from your side but first I need to know if I start business with 100 goats how much cost is required and my land is enough for around 500 goats?
Awaiting for your valuable reply…

Hello SAM, thank you very much for your query. You are interested in setting up commercial meat goat farming business in your area. We have stated Boer, Beetal, Sirohi, Black Bengal and some others as best meat producing goat breeds. Boer goats are slightly expensive mainly because of their large size and high production capability. If you can’t purchase Boer for your business, then go with other breeds. There are no rules that you must have to raise Boers for meat production. There are many breeds out there which are also suitable for this business. Try to buy any of the breeds which we have stated in our website. You can also start with your local breeds (if available). Breeds matter, but not too much. You can generate handsome profits even form the smaller sized goats. You just have to understand the business. Take good care of your goats, feed them low cost but nutritious feeds. Always ensure availability of greens for your goats. Start with smaller herd size, gather experience and then setup large scale commercial farm. Thanks!

HelloI am planning to start a goat farming in the Somalia. I have currently 30 hectares open land, which is suitable to grow hay, pasture, grasses and other crops.My problem is there are millions of goats in Somalia but I don’t know which breed is best for meat production and which one is best for milk production. In conclussion don’t know if these breeds that you mentioned in your website are available in Somalia. Also what breeds of goats are Somalia rears ?

You have a huge open land for producing greens for the goats. It’s very important for commercial goat farming. For commercial meat production, you can raise Somali goats. According to the weather and climate of Somalia, Somali goat is very suitable for commercial farming. For milk production, you can try some highly productive dairy goat breeds (if available in your country, you can search any of your nearest goat farm). And most of the Somalian goat farmer used to raise this Somali goats for meat production. Thank you!

You have to start with at least 20 to 25 goats (19 to 24 does with one buck). You can choose any highly meat productive goat breeds which includes Boer, Beetal, Sirohi, Kashmiri, Black Bengal etc. Contact central institute for research on goats (also known as CIRG) for practical goat management training. Thank you!

I am planning to start a goat farm in Aurangabad (Mah.) please suggest me with which goat breed should i go in and from where should i purchase it, i am having 10 acres of land and i am planning to invest around 2-3 lakhs. Also suggest if there is any training facility available in the region.

You should select proper goat breed according to your desired production purpose. A list of good breeds which are suitable for farming in India are already listed above. You can purchase goats from your nearest livestock market or any farms in your area. For training you can contact Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Mendhi Va Sheli Vikas Prakshtra, Padegaon, Dist-Aurangabad (Farm Manager 0240-2370449). Thank you!

I am planning to start a goat farm in vellore dist near chennai (TN) please suggest me with which goat breed is suitable meat production in this area , i have 6 acres of land and i am planning to INVEST around 2-3 lakhs. Also suggest if there is any training facility available in the region.

For meat production, you can raise Boer, Black Bengal, Sirohi, Sojat, Osmanabadi, Beetal etc. All will be suitable for farming in your area. Right now, we don’t know about the availability of goat farming training facility in your area. Thank you!

Dear sir I am a resident of kopargaon Maharashtra. I have all facilities with me like fresh water, land, fresh air etc. But I want to know that which breed of goat is suitable for me to start a new goat farm with respect to suitability of climate, having less chances of illness, good in meat production. Also tell me about the necessary vaccines, food type and qty per goat per day. Thank you

Dear Sir,
I am thinking about goat farming in north Bihar India for meat purpose, but i don’t have land for grazing and it is very difficult to buy land 1 acre 2 acre, because it very costly. I can buy 30000 sq/fit land . So i want to feedback that what type of goat breed will be suitable for without grazing, what type of food is required for that breed? If we have to purchase there food from market % of profit can generate on average ?. who i can manage with that much land number of goat suitable for this land

Your business will not be much profitable if you don’t have grazing land or land for producing green feeds for your goats. 30000 square feet is equal to 0.69 acres. So you can raise 60 to 70 goats if you produce green feeds in the land. For commercial meat production, you can choose Boer, Black Bengal, Sirohi, Sojat, Beetal, Osmanabadi or any other local meat goat breed in your area. Thank you!

What is your production purpose? You can choose any breed which are listed above. Boer, Black Bental, Beetal, Sirohi, Sojat, Osmanabadi etc. will be suitable for meat production and Jamunapari, Saanen etc. will be suitable for milk production purpose. Thank you!

Sir I have 1.25acre land, it has already 70-80 guava trees,I belong to Bilaspur Chhattisgarh.My question is 1.From How much goats could i start and run the business with Fodder facility 2.which breed is the best for Chhattisgarh Climate.3)how much should i spend money for the maximum strength of goats.is there any Gov.policies for goat purchasing or shelter bima ?

You can raise upto 100 goats. Almost all Indian goats will be suitable for farming in your area. You can choose any native breed according to your production purpose. Total amount of money depend on various factors, so we can’t tell the exact number. And there are no restrictions by govt. for raising goats. Thank you!

sir i want to start goat farming in bikaner rajasthan, please guide me that from where i can get training, with which breed should i start and how many goats should i start with. i have 2 acars of agriculture land

hello sir ,
i am thinking to invest in any farming mostly Cow farming and goat farming in rural area of , rajasthan. Delhi and Jaipur( Capital of rajasthan) is 300 & 325 kms respectively. I am passionate about modern farming. I have 20 bighas (5 acre)land in rajasthan.

Couple of questions:-
How much a good meat breed cost per goat and male accordingly
same with good milk goat as well.
could u please give me a estimated idea that with 50- 100 goat how much it cost.
minimum benefit over 3 years i should expect.
I would like to visit modern farms in rajasthan or in overall india if you can advise me or training center close to me.
would you please advise where i can buy good breeds
cost of 100 goat sheds, feed , any management cost.
where i can sell milk and meat.
how much i can sale a goat meat and milk per kgs.
vaccination , disease prevention etc.
pls give me your contact if its possible ;will be appreciated.
thanks

You have sufficient amount of land for starting the business. Before starting, try to learn more about the business practically. We are trying to answer your questions.
Q: How much a good meat breed cost per goat and male accordingly
same with good milk goat as well.
A: Price vary from place to place. So, we can’t tell the exact price. Please visit some livestock market.
Q: could u please give me a estimated idea that with 50- 100 goat how much it cost.
minimum benefit over 3 years i should expect.
A: Please review the goat farming project report on our website. http://www.roysfarm.com/goat-farming-project-report/
Q: I would like to visit modern farms in rajasthan or in overall india if you can advise me or training center close to me. would you please advise where i can buy good breeds
A: Please contact with CIRG or your nearest agriculture extension office.
Q: cost of 100 goat sheds, feed , any management cost.
where i can sell milk and meat.
how much i can sale a goat meat and milk per kgs.
A: As we have mentioned above, we can’t tell the exact amount. Please visit the market directly and review the project report for having an estimated idea.
Q: vaccination , disease prevention etc.
A: http://www.roysfarm.com/common-vaccination-for-goats/http://www.roysfarm.com/goat-diseases/

1. There are various types of structure designs and it can vary from place to place. Please search some design online.
2. No license required for goat farming. So, you don’t have to wait for any type of govt. approval.
3. Feed your goats with sufficient amount of quality green feeds along with supplementary feeds. Visit the webpage below to learn about goat feed.http://www.roysfarm.com/goat-feed/

dear sir thank you for your information, are you suggesting me to buy pure boer goats ? or boer cross? , i am from pondicherry where i have to buy the goats billy? , how much will be the cost, and for boer goat what kind of grass you suggesting me to grow?

Buy pure goats if you can. But pure Boer goats are highly priced than cross breeds. You have to spend up to $500 for a pure bred Boer goat. Alfalfa, Millet, Timothy etc. will be suitable for Boer goats. Thank you!

dear sir if i am going to buy pure boer goat means for only meat purpose it is profitable?
here near to my place one guy he use to sell boer cross with thalathari goats can i buy that ?
pls send me a quote for 50 pure boer goats ?

Yes, raising pure Boer goats for commercial meat production purpose will be profitable. If you can’t buy pure Boer goats, then you can purchase cross breeds. Pure Boer goats are highly priced than any other available meat goat breeds. We don’t know the exact price in your area. But you have to spend up to $500 for a single goat. Thank you!

Sir, I’m from kerala, I have a Shelter with 1500 sq ft, how many goats can accomodate in it? And I dont have green feilds. How can feed them? Is there is any feed to get high wheight for meet purpose? How many days want to get good weight?

You can accommodate up to 100 goats in your shelter. Green feeds is very important for goats. Green feeds not only keep the animals healthy but also help to reduce feeding costs. It will be better if you can manage some land for cultivating greens. You can feed your goats with supplementary meat goat feeds for getting high weights. We can’t tell exact time for getting good weight. Exact time can vary depending on goat breeds. On an average, 12 months to 18 months for meat goat breeds. Thank you!

I am planning to start a goat farm in raipur chhatisgarh please suggest me with which goat breed is suitable meat production in this area , i have 2 acres of land and i am planning to INVEST around 2-3 lakhs. Also suggest if there is any training facility available in the region.

Boer, Beetal, Sirohi, Sojat, Black Bengal etc. will be very suitable for commercial meat production purpose in your area. You can raise about 200 goats by using your 2 acres of land. We don’t know much about the training facilities in your area. Thank you!

I am from Nepal.. I want to know any reputed breeders of Boer goat… Near by BIHAR OR UP.. States as they are nearer.. To boarder of Nepal. Also the training centers
how much would be the start up cost for 200 goats. Ad I have to buy them from India..
thank you

I have a 3 acres land in Coorge district near Kerala border Kannur district. The place is good for got farming and all facilities and food is available like fresh water enough land for feeding etc. If anyone interested can start a farm here or can do together. If anyone interested can contact me.9947568950

Hats Off for your wonderful work for sharing the valueable information on Goat Farming. Last one year I was trying to start this project and for this reason I was looking for suitable and economical land for purchase but unforunately didn’t get it. Still searching for the same.

Can you tell me which type of breed is good at a height of 850m to 2800m (Uttaranchal) above the sea level for both the purpose (dairy+meat) and herd size will be 25-45 max.